What are your movie/music/television guilty pleasures?

[Dr Frankenollie]

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[ajmrowland]

The Lovely Bones. I know some people *hate* that movie, but I just cant help enjoying it. It only gets better on repeat viewings, which it demands.

For music, I guess I can say I have no preferences, which makes me able to stomache a lot of bad music.

TV Shows, I've occassionally watched ABC Family "dramas" and I'm partial to sitcom reruns and scooby doo.

[singerguy04]

Movies - I really like the new Stepford Wives with Nicole Kidman. It was kind of a flop and a lot of people felt that it was just a bad remake, but I find it hilarious. I also think Kung Pow is funny, but no one I know does.

Music - I'm a BIG fan of K-pop right now. I don't even really know what they are saying, but I love the music and their music videos. IMO Kelly Rowland > Beyonce.

TV - I watch and enjoy any paranormal investigation show. I'm also obsessed with the History Channel.

[Duckburger]

In asked order:

The two theatrical live-action Scooby-Doo movies; Ke$ha; Gordon Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen and Donald Trump's Celebrity Apprentice.

[Goliath]

There was a thread not too long ago about 'guilty pleasure songs':
http://www.dvdizzy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28257

I don't mean this in a bad way, but you could use the 'search' feature sometimes. (But if threads have been dead for years, I think a new one should be made.)

Anyway, this list of my guilty pleasure songs comes from the afore-mentioned thread. They're for the most part childhood nostalgia:

Aha- Take On Me
Alcazar- Crying at the Discotheque
Alizee- Moi Lolita
Avril Levigne- Sk8er Boi
B*Witched- C'est La Vie
B*Witched- Rollercoaster
Bangles- Walk Like an Egyptian
Barry Manilow- Mandy
Blue ft. Elton John- Sorry Seems To Be the Hardest Word
Corrs- Breathless
Corrs- Irresistible
Culture Club- Kharma Chameleon
Dixie Chicks- Not Ready To Make Nice
Eifel 65- I'm Blue
Eve ft. Gwen Stefani- Let Me Blow Ya Mind
Fat Joe ft. Ashanti- What's Luv
Fool's Garden- Lemon Tree
Gary Jules- Mad World
Glenn Medeiros- Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You
Gloria Estefan- Can't Stay Away From You
Hall & Oats- Maneater
Inner Circle- Sweat (A la lal la la long)
Jackie Wilson- Reet Petite
Jennifer Lopez ft. Ja Rule- I'm Real
Joshua Kadison- Jessie Paints a Picture
Katie Melua- Nine Million Bicycles
Katrina and the Waves- Walking On Sunshine
Kelis- Trick Me
Kevin Little- Turn Me On
La Roux- Bulletproof
Lily Allen- Fuck You
Lily Allen- It's Not Fair
Maroon 5- This Love
Meja- All About the Money
Meredith Brooks- I'm a Bitch
Mousse T. ft. Tom Jones- Sex Bomb
Mr. President- Coco Jambo
Mya ft. Pras Michael- Ghetto Superstar (That Is What You Are)
Neil Diamond- Love On the Rocks
Nelly- Ride With Me
Nena- 99 Luftballoons
Pointer Sisters- I'm So Excited
Pussycat Dolls- I Don't Need a Man
R. Kelly- Gotham City
R. Kelly- The World's Greatest
Scatman John- Scatman
Shakira- Whenever, Wherever
Sniff 'N The Tears- Drivers' Seat
Soulsister- The Way To Your Heart
Spice Girls- 2 Become 1
Spice Girls- Stop
Spice Girls- Wannabe
Stacey Orrico- Stuck
TQ- Westside
Ultimate Kaos- Casanova
Womack & Womack- Teardrops

My guilty pleasure movies include, among others,

10 Things I Hate About You
Mean Girls
Freaky Friday
Enchanted and
13 Going On 30.
Oh, and porn of course.


My guilty pleasure tv shows? Can't say I have any, really. Okay, I admit that, when flipping the channels aimlessly (which I do *very* seldomely), I always go to Disney Channel to see if Wizards of Waverly Place happens to be on. And if it is, I'll keep watching until the end. It's not so much the show that I like (though of all their shows, it sucks the least), but Selena Gomez places high among my celebrity crushes.

Oh, wait, I just thought of one! I really love the old Canadian tv show Ready or Not (mid-90's). It's a childhood favorite. Even though it had two girls as the main characters and it was aimed at that demographic, as a boy, I still liked it. I just think the show was told with so much authenticity and reality. It wasn't like the over-produced shows you'll see on Disney Channel at all. The show, amidst a lot of fun, also dared to touch upon real and 'controversial' subjects (divorce, adultery, sexual harrassment, female media imagery), but not in the 'lesson of the week'-format Disney would force it into --if Disney would have the balls to take its audience seriously, which Ready or Not did. It never pandered and it never resolved anything neatly within the 25-minute span of an episode. It understood that in real life, often there's not a neat resolution. The two main characters Amanda and Busy worked off each other well, being polar opposites but still best friends. But, real to life, over the years, they slowly grew apart.

I watched this show in its entirety again some two years ago on YouTube and I enjoyed it because of the good writing, the spot-on characterizations and the humor in all of the situations they find themselves in --it's very amusing, from an adult point of view, to see them struggle with everyday issues we find so trivial now, but which would have meant the world to us when we were that age. And it worked, because it never belittled the characters and their demographic for that.

You can watch the intro here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQpaZfU3LhE

[dvdjunkie]

My guilty pleasures are numerous, but I'll try to keep the list short:

Movies:

I love the original Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone, he was and still is the best Holmes, in my opinion.

I also enjoy Disney's "Ugly Dachshund", "Herbie Goes Bananas", and "Herbie Fully Loaded".

Television:

When nobody is around I find myself drawn to the HGTV channel for some reason, and if there is nothing on that I really like I can switch to Food Network. Don't tell anyone, but I really am a HGTV geek!!!!!

Music:

While I listen to most any type of music, except 'Rap-Krap' (I agree with Rush Limbaugh on this, he says that rap is bad poetry with an even worse drum beat!!!!). My new music guilty pleasure has to be Jennifer Lopez's new CD. I really like this one a lot.

My most guilty pleasure is that I still like Barry Manilow!!!!!

[Goliath]

[...] While I listen to most any type of music, except 'Rap-Krap' (I agree with Rush Limbaugh on this, he says that rap is bad poetry with an even worse drum beat!!!!). My new music guilty pleasure has to be Jennifer Lopez's new CD. I really like this one a lot.

My most guilty pleasure is that I still like Barry Manilow!!!!!

The *real* guilty pleasure is that you listen to Rush Limbaugh.

[dvdjunkie]

Caught that one, did you. Thanks Goliath!!! I am a 'Rush' listener, not a follower.

[Disney Duster]

Goliath...did you know Ready or Not was on the Disney Channel? I'm guessing you did, and that's where you found it, but it's hilarious how you're saying it's so unlike Disney Channel shows and it was on the Disney Channel!

I liked that show, too, if that's the one where the girl spray-painted the one guy's car.

Still, I gotta say, even though it was on the Disney Channel, I'd say it's unsweet/unfantasy view really isn't very Disney, but more of a fit for Nickelodeon. I don't know why you want Disney to go changing itself...

...yup, that's how I still feel after all this time away! lol

[Goliath]

Goliath...did you know Ready or Not was on the Disney Channel? I'm guessing you did, and that's where you found it, but it's hilarious how you're saying it's so unlike Disney Channel shows and it was on the Disney Channel!

Actually, no, I didn't find it on Disney Channel. Dutch DC doesn't carry it; and we never had DC up until a year or two ago. I first saw it on a Belgian children's tv station. And when I said it was so unlike the DC-shows, I meant the original shows that are being produced for DC. Ready or Not was a Canadian production.

Still, I gotta say, even though it was on the Disney Channel, I'd say it's unsweet/unfantasy view really isn't very Disney, but more of a fit for Nickelodeon. I don't know why you want Disney to go changing itself...

I wish Disney would do original shows like Ready or Not! I think Disney needs to go back to taking its audience seriously. I think RoN is ifinitly better than any tv show Disney has ever done (animated shows excluded).

[Disney Duster]

I agree Disney should do more original shows, and take itself and audiences seriously, and that Ready or Not was better than any Disney shows today...but if you look at Walt's own television shows, Ready or Not still seems rather un-Disney in...the way it is.

[carolinakid]

The Lair
Dante's Cove
The A List: New York
Ru Paul's Drag Race and Ru Paul's Drag U
Strangers With Candy
Teen Wolf
Jersey Shore
Sordid Lives: The Series... A Black Comedy About White Trash
1 Girl/5 Gays

[Flanger-Hanger]

1 Girl/5 Gays

I will never consider this a guilty pleasure!

[PixarFan2006]

Movies: UHF, Howard the Duck, Machete
TV Shows: Hollywood Treasure, Unwrapped
Music: Cannot really say.

[ajmrowland]

I agree Disney should do more original shows, and take itself and audiences seriously, and that Ready or Not was better than any Disney shows today...but if you look at Walt's own television shows, Ready or Not still seems rather un-Disney in...the way it is.

"The Disney Essence" Strikes back!

Adding to my previous list: the Star Wars Prequels

[Goliath]

I agree Disney should do more original shows, and take itself and audiences seriously, and that Ready or Not was better than any Disney shows today...but if you look at Walt's own television shows, Ready or Not still seems rather un-Disney in...the way it is.

That's because Walt Disney has been dead since 1966. So he really didn't have a chance to develop since then.

[Disney Duster]

Well that may be your opinion. But the fact is from his entire life he chose everything to be a lot sweeter, nicer, and more fantasy then Ready or Not. You may have an idea about what he might have produced later...but the only facts and evidence we have are what he did make, which was nothing like Ready or Not. I don't know why you think Disney would "develop" into something different, what makes you think this, when during his whole adult life he was one way? And, in addition, if something keeps changing, won't it lose it's identity?

[Jackoleen]

Dear Disney Enthusiasts,

XXX!

[Wonderlicious]

I'll stick to some TV shows for the time being (will perhaps edit in some films)...

Glee
The Catherine Tate Show
Eastenders
Coronation Street
The Class
Come Dine With Me
8 Simple Rules
Pokémon
Wife Swap
Super Nanny
The Fairly Odd Parents
Faerie Tale Theatre
Hope and Faith
Scènes de Ménage

And also...

Tacky documentaries
General "nostalgia/Top 100" specials

[disneyboy20022]

Tv Shows

Kim Possible

Ben 10, Ben 10: Alien Force, Ben 10 Ultimate Alien etc

Hannah Montana

The Looney Tunes Shows

Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated

The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes


Smallville

Birds of Prey

Auction Wars

Storage Wars

Pawn Stars

Hardcore Pawn

American Pickers

Antiques Roadshow

Pokemon

Yu-gi-oh

Batman: The Brave and the Bold

Disney's Hercules animated series

Disney's Aladdin Animated Series

Merlin

WWE Raw

WWE Smackdown

WWE Tough Enough

Celebrity Apprentice

The Apprentice

Survivor

The Marriage Ref (which is coming back to NBC later this month)

Baggage

Love Triangle

Family Feud

Parking Wars

I'll list the movies later on in this post that have some guilty pleasure about....for me